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paper phone books has nothing to do with whether or not they think people still use them. Have you noticed that they now sell advertising space in those phone books?

Like the ongoing saga of Globe Direct, we have yet another example of how society's willingness to cater to the marketing types trying to use every way imaginable to shill their wares on the public is a huge waste of resources and is environmentally un-friendly.

The publisher loads the books into a truck at the printing plant or distribution center, drives them around the city, and drops them at people's doorsteps. Next, the homeowner picks them up and moves them several feet to the recycle bin. Next, the city pays a contractor to empty the recycle bins and transport the contents to the recycling center.

Wouldn't it just be cheaper and all around more efficient for the city to simply pay the publisher to truck the books directly from the printing plant to the recycling plant? Maybe that could be a contractual add-on next time the trash pick-up contract is put out to bid?

Land lines are still being used, so there is still a high demand for telephone directory phone books, especially for the elderly and the poor who cant afford a cell phone or the billing charges that come with a cell phone, but as the years linger on and the older generation 65 and over crowd start to fade away from earth, I think the telephone book will follow.

There are many people over the age of 55 who still use the White/Yellow pages. Not everyone has an Iphone or access to the Interweb. If you don't use these directories, throw them in your recycle bin and stop whining.